KCheckGMail – KDE Desktop Systray notifier for GMail

KCheckGMail – KDE Desktop Systray notifier for GMail

KCheckGMail, as the name implies is a simple utility for KDE desktop which sits in the systray and notifies of any new email on your GMail email account. KCheckGMail works OK on KDE 4.x desktops and is tested on KDE 3.5.

KCheckGMail works on openSUSE 11.1, openSUSE 11.0 and openSUSE 10.3.

Install KCheckGMail

KCheckGMail can be installed using the following 1-click installers available at openSUSE Build Service. Click one of the following 1-click installs based on your openSUSE version.

openSUSE 11.1 & openSUSE 11.0

NOTE: There isn’t a 1-click installer available for openSUSE 11.1 yet but the 1-click installer available for openSUSE 11.0 works just fine with 11.1

openSUSE 10.3

Click Next on the window showing the repository selection then Next on the package selection window. This should start adding the repositories and download and install the KCheckGMail package and the required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes.

This should install KCheckGMail under Applications – Internet – Email as “New Email Notifier” with the GMail symbol.

Click “New Email Notifier” or /opt/kde3/bin/kcheckgmail from a terminal. Click OK on the welcome message window and accept the License Agreement in the following window.

This should launch the configuration window for KCheckGMail. For a simple configuration, enter GMail user account and password, this should start with the defaults. Advanced configs like the time interval between every check, default browser to use to launch GMail on browser can be configured from here or later from the “Configure KcheckGMail” option in the systray (right-click menu).

As you would, straight forward simple application for KDE. Click here to visit the project homepage.